Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PANAMA CITY (AP) — A cultural body for the Guna Yala people in Panama voted Monday to ban the wearing of face masks used to combat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Sept. 12, 2018, Miss Panama Rosa Iveth Montezuma stands inside an elevator to leave the Panamanian Tourism Ministry after ...

Panama is sending its first Indigenous woman ever to the Miss Universe contest. And in Latin America, where pageants are a big deal, that's a big deal. Rosa Iveth Montezuma's win as Miss Panama is ...

A young member of an indigenous group from the Amazon region listens during a meeting with Pope Francis Jan. 19 at Madre de Dios stadium in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) ...

Wounaan and Embera indigenous communities occupying four territories in eastern Panama are taking their nearly five-year land-titling battle with the government to the Inter-American Commission on ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It is part of a project on reverse migration by Arizona Republic reporter Daniel Gonzalez and El Paso Times visual journalist Omar Ornelas. BAJO ...

On August 9, International Day of Indigenous Peoples, the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) presented to Panama’s National Council for the Integral Development of Indigenous Peoples (CONDIPI) the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Monday critiquing the Panamanian government’s lax efforts to assist coastal indigenous peoples in the country with relocation as their ancestral homelands ...

Climaco Dogirama wanted to honor his grandfather when he took part in the spear-throwing competition at Indigenous Ancestral Games. Climaco Dogirama, a member of the Panamanian Embera ethnic group, ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Rosa Montezuma about being the first indigenous woman to be crowned Miss Panama. The First Indigenous Miss Panama LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Panama is sending its first ...